Seeing Sea Plastic: Computer vision spots ocean trash from satellite imagery.
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Seeing Sea Plastic: Computer vision spots ocean trash from satellite imagery.

A machine learning model is scanning the oceans for the glint of garbage. Researchers from the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory trained a model to identify ocean-borne refuse.

May 6, 20201 min read
Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.
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Triage for Pandemic Patients: Complications AlgoMarker measures a patient's Covid risk.

Israeli and American hospitals are using an algorithm to flag individuals at high risk for Covid-19 complications.

May 6, 20202 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
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Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones
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Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones

Deep learning promises to help emergency responders find their way through disaster zones. MIT researchers developed a tool that maps where hurricanes and other calamities have wiped out roads, helping to show aid workers the fastest ways to get to people in need.

April 29, 20201 min read
Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.
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Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.

A new algorithm can triage programming bugs, highlighting dangerous flaws. Microsoft researchers developed a machine learning model that reads the titles of bug reports and recognizes those describing flaws that compromise security.

April 29, 20202 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
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Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.
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Bug Squasher: AI helps security researchers fix the most severe bugs first.

A new algorithm can triage programming bugs, highlighting dangerous flaws. Microsoft researchers developed a machine learning model that reads the titles of bug reports and recognizes those describing flaws that compromise security.

April 29, 20202 min read
Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones
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Roads to Recovery: AI maps the route through disaster zones

Deep learning promises to help emergency responders find their way through disaster zones. MIT researchers developed a tool that maps where hurricanes and other calamities have wiped out roads, helping to show aid workers the fastest ways to get to people in need.

April 29, 20201 min read
Beyond Neural Architecture Search: AutoML-Zero is a meta-algorithm for classification.
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Beyond Neural Architecture Search: AutoML-Zero is a meta-algorithm for classification.

Faced with a classification task, an important step is to browse the catalog of machine learning architectures to find a good performer. Researchers are exploring ways to do it automatically.

April 8, 20202 min read
Beyond Neural Architecture Search: AutoML-Zero is a meta-algorithm for classification.
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Beyond Neural Architecture Search: AutoML-Zero is a meta-algorithm for classification.

Faced with a classification task, an important step is to browse the catalog of machine learning architectures to find a good performer. Researchers are exploring ways to do it automatically.

April 8, 20202 min read
Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.
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Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.

Glass bottles and crystal bowls bend light in strange ways. Image processing networks often struggle to separate the boundaries of transparent objects from the background that shows through them. A new method sees such items more accurately.

April 1, 20202 min read
Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.
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Seeing the See-Through: ClearGrasp allows robots to grab see-through objects.

Glass bottles and crystal bowls bend light in strange ways. Image processing networks often struggle to separate the boundaries of transparent objects from the background that shows through them. A new method sees such items more accurately.

April 1, 20202 min read
Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
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Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.
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Satellite Data Hints at China Upswing: AI analysis showed how Covid impacted the Chinese economy.

Neural networks revealed both how hard Covid-19 has hit the Chinese economy, and hopeful signs that a renaissance may be underway. Researchers analyzed satellite imagery, GPS signals, and social media to get a multifaceted view of the pandemic’s impact.

March 25, 20202 min read
Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)
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Self-Supervised Simplicity: Image classification with simple contrastive learning (SimCLR)

A simple linear classifier paired with a self-supervised feature extractor outperformed a supervised deep learning model on ImageNet, according to new research.

March 18, 20202 min read

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